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• Nut (fruit) , a type of fruit borne by certain flowering plants
• Nut (hardware), a fastener with internal screw thread
• Nut (linear positioning), the moving element along a lead screw or ball screw
• Nut (string instrument), a strip of hard material used to stop string vibrations
  • also the adjustment device at the end of a bow (music)
• Nut (climbing), a metal wedge used as protection during rock climbing
• Nut (goddess), a goddess in Egyptian mythology
• Nut hand, in poker, pocket cards that cannot be beaten
• A nut case, or crazy person
• NUT Container, a free multimedia container format
• National Union of Teachers in the United Kingdom
• The Nut, a volcanic plug and landmark near Stanley, Tasmania

For other uses, see Nut (disambiguation). ... A nut is a type of hardware fastener with a threaded hole. ... A leadscrew is screw specialized for the purpose of translating rotational to linear motion. ... Photo showing two ball screws. ... The nut of a string instrument is a small strip or block of hard material forming a transition between the strings playing length and the tuning machines on the headstock, or the tuning pegs in the pegbox at the upper end of the fingerboard. ... A cello bow In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. ... A selection of nuts and a nut removal tool. ... In Egyptian mythology, Nuit or Nut was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, which usually have a sky father. ... In poker, the nut hand, or simply the nuts, is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... NUT is a patent-free, multimedia container format originally conceived by a few MPlayer and FFmpeg developers that were dissatisfied with the limitations of all currently available multimedia container formats such as AVI or Matroska. ... The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is a trade union of school teachers in England and Wales. ... Stanley is a town on on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. ...

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